Jamie Parker | |
Constituency Mp: | Balmain |
Parliament: | New South Wales |
Majority: | 4.9% (2015) |
Term Start: | 26 March 2011 |
Term End: | 3 March 2023 |
Predecessor: | Verity Firth |
Successor: | Kobi Shetty |
Office2: | 37th Mayor of Leichhardt |
Term Start2: | 13 September 2008 |
Term End2: | 19 May 2011 |
Predecessor2: | Carolyn Allen |
Successor2: | Rochelle Porteous |
Birth Place: | Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England |
Birthname: | Jamie Thomas Parker |
Nationality: | Australian |
Party: | Greens New South Wales |
Alma Mater: | Macquarie University |
Signature: | Jamie Parker signature 2019.svg |
Jamie Thomas Parker (born 1971)[1] is an Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Balmain for the Greens from 2011 until his retirement in 2023.[1] Parker was the first Green to represent his party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Parker has been active in social justice and environmental issues for many years and while at university was elected the NSW president and subsequently the national environment officer of the National Union of Students.[2]
Parker stood for and was elected to Leichhardt Council in 1999 as a NSW Greens member. Parker was subsequently re-elected in 2004 and 2008. While on Council he has served as chair of the Environment Committee, as deputy mayor and, since 2008, as the mayor of Leichhardt. He retired from Council at the 2012 election.[3]
Parker has served as the convenor (state party chairman) of the NSW Greens.
Parker won the seat of Balmain from Labor's Verity Firth at the 2011 State election.[4] [5] [6] He is the first member of the NSW Greens to sit in the Lower House of the New South Wales Parliament.
Parker announced that he would not be contesting the 2023 State election on 14 October 2022.[7] He was succeeded in Balmain by fellow Green Kobi Shetty.